Management Team

• Founder & Chairwomen & CEO of DDC since 2012
• Former Head of Equities Research at HSBC Private Bank
• Ex-Board Member of YPO North Asia Regional and Hong Kong Shanghai Youth Association​; Current member of YPO Global One Chapter
• Harvard Business School Alumni GMP 35

• 30 years of experience as corporate attorney and CPA representing world-leading innovative, rapid growth companies​
• Managed more than 100 M&A and capital market transactions in U.S. and abroad
• A decade as CFO, General Counsel, Head of IR for a NASDAQ-listed company

• Co-founder & Managing Partner at Initial Ventures, a crypto venture fund, with over 20 years experience in fund management and digital asset investments
• Former Managing Director at C$715B AUM Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, who led the Thematic Investing program in Asia focused on disruptive tech including blockchain
• Founder and CIO of Wuzhu Asia Partners, an investment fund focused on contrarian strategies

Ethan Yong Kang Yu is our Principal Financial and Accounting Officer. Since September 2020, Mr. Yu has served at several important capacity at DayDayCook, where he is responsible for the company's financial management and capital raising. In November 2024, he was promoted to lead the finance function for the group. From 2018 to July 2020, Mr. Yu worked at BakerTilly International Certified Public Accountants (Special General Partnership) Shanghai branch, assisting client companies with several successful IPOs. Mr. Yu has been engaged in finance-related work since obtaining his bachelor's degree from Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology University in 2018.